In a previous post, I mentioned a favourite interview question of mine: Stored Process Server vs Workspace Server – What’s the difference? I thought I’d mention another. Outside of incidental information picked-up through your regular work, how do yo…
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Death and taxes (a visual analysis)
It’s said that the only things you can’t avoid are Death and Taxes … Well, in this blog, I’m going to avoid the “Death” one (for now), and just show you some graphs on taxes in the U.S., since the deadline for paying 2012 taxes is quickly approachin…
A Great Start to the 2013 User Group Season
The last two weeks have ushered in the 2013 user group season through the two oldest groups in Canada. Last week, the SAS Halifax Region User Group (SHRUG) held their kick-off meeting on the east coast. I myself wasn’t there, so I can’t write too much …
Quick Tip for Using OLAP Cube Results in the Your Stored Process
Sometimes the data you want for your stored process is already neatly located and summarized – but it is in an OLAP cube. While you can probably recreate the data with some of your fancy coding, it does take time, testing and later creates maintenance issues. If the data you …
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R Tackles Big Garbage
April 1, 2013 – Although the capabilities of the R system for data analytics have been expanding with impressive speed, it has heretofore been missing important fundamental methods. A new function works with the popular plyr package to provide these missing … Continue reading →
Baseball’s loss is your gain: The ODS Graphics course is here!
It’s been quite a while since my face has graced the SAS Training Post, so some of you may have been wondering: Did Mike retire? Was he traded to another company for a blogger to be named later? Did he leave to pursue his lifelong dream of play…
Data about each month (SAS)
A SAS code to generate information about each month such as the number of days in the month, week days, hours, work hours, etc. using intck and intnx function. It’s also a good example of using a DATA step to generate a data set without an input data …
NOTE: DS2 Final, Final Comments
I got as lot of feedback about the DS2 articles I recently wrote. I should add a few more summarising comments:
I mentioned that DS2 doesn’t currently support MERGE. Chris Hemedinger commented that the ability to use SQL in your SET statement means th…